No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think if I hadn't become a sociologist, I would have become very anti-intellectual.
Mathematics is as old as Man.
The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding.
I am a sociologist, God help me.
I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.
Mathematicians don't like it when they're associated with mental illness and sort of bristle when you say that they can't get along socially, that they're not good with people.
I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
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